Thursday, November 8, 2012

Mathematically Demanding Bagels

Surgically, this will be intricate. Mathematically, it will be sophisticated. What we are going to do is consider an ordinary bagel, and rather than reduce it in half, we are going to turn it, delicately, into two intertwining, interlocked bagel elements, connected, unbroken, 1 twisting via the other. In other words, a Mobius bagel.

A guide to making a Mobius bagel. Cut along the black line.

A guidebook to making a Mobius bagel. Reduce along the black line.

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This is what mathematicians do on lazy afternoons. It truly is also a way to have more bagel surface to slap cream cheese on, says math teacher and sculptor George Hart (who's so skinny, he could not do this usually.)

Here's how it can be accomplished. If you had the hands of a surgeon and the brain of Pythagoras, you would consider a knife and carve a gentle, 360-degree slice that dips down and comes back up in a excellent, interior swirl. This video demonstrates the ideal reduce, but remember it can be slicing an excellent bagel, with no crumbs, no imperfections, so this will under no circumstances happen in actual existence.

But several in genuine existence have attempted. Since George Hart published his cutting scheme a couple of many years ago, superior colleges now regularly ask students to make Mobius bagels (even if the expression "Mobius" isn't fairly proper, simply because a real Mobius twists these break).

Feel me, it isn't uncomplicated. I just tried, and the bagel fell apart due to the fact I could not get the knife to make the last near -to-the-surface pass without screwing up. But that is me. Some folks have a present.

Take "Kirill," a large college pupil who chose what seems to be a raisin bagel (which is insane including random, lumpy obstacles is like throwing rocks onto a skating rink), and for his utensil, I think he applied a low-cost, plastic cafeteria knife, and but, watch what he does.

1 day, Kirill is going to be a brain surgeon.

Mobius-sliced bagel
Mobius-sliced bagel

Me? I'm in radio. My bagel's in tatters. I'm covered in crumbs. But I have received cream cheese, so I will be fine. A very little ashamed, a minor chubbier, but fine.


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